Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 4.
Published in final edited form as: Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2012;2012:5502–5505. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6347240

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

The forces at the junction vertex of three cells a, b and c. Tension is tangential to the edge (black). Pressure is normal to the edge (blue). The net force on the junction vertex is obtained by summing tension and pressure acting on the vertex.